This week, was mostly working to create a visual metaphor and connecting it to a chapter in the "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" book. For example, my group did a metaphor involving a suspension bridge, and how archetypes hold up and support a story much like the suspensions on a bridge do, with the road underneath being the author's discretion on how to use the archetypes to get to one place to another. Thinking through the archetypes that authors use actually helped understand how an author thinks through writing a novel. How they get from plot point to plot point. How they create characters to support their hero.
Another thing I thought about this week was the differences between aspects of story verses aspects of literature in novels. In class we read a newspaper article of Pullman discussing this. He talks of story as a idea of action. Action that He also talked about the importance of perspective in the newspaper article. We all took a part of the writing and highlighted it as a main point within the piece. The last thing we did in Literature, was looking at the timed poem analysis and looking at examples of successful and unsuccessful submissions. Then we were told to find a specific part of a successful piece and why it was successful. I noticed it used many quotes of descriptions directly from the poem. They would use it to describe a meaningful part, then describes why this is important/ why the author does this. This seemed to be the formula for each paragraph. Describe a thing the author did, use quotes exemplifying it, then close with why it mattered.
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